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Florida closed out the regular season by capturing its 6th straight SEC series, and the Gators did it with some offensive muscle.
UF scored all of its runs in the first 5 innings before cooling off a little in a 9-3 victory over Alabama on Saturday in the rubber game of the weekend series. Florida now heads to Hoover for the SEC Baseball Tournament with about as much momentum as a team can have after finishing with a 37-19 overall record and a 15-15 SEC mark that is much better than it looks.
That’s because the Gators won 14 of their final 18 SEC games after a horrendous 1-11 start in conference play. No. 23 Florida will try to keep its late-season magic going when it starts play in Hoover on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the 18th-ranked Crimson Tide (40-15, 16-14 SEC) couldn’t keep their offensive mojo going on Saturday after winning Game 2 of the series, 9-6. Florida took the series opener, 7-6, to set itself up for yet another series victory, and the Gators made it happen again on Saturday.
Florida’s offense was ignited by solo home runs from infielder Bobby Boser, catcher Brody Donay and Ty Evans, to go with an RBI single by infielder Landon Stripling. The Gators broke it open with 5 runs in the 5th, highlighted by a 2-run single by Boser and an RBI groundout by Hayden Yost.
Freshman Aidan King earned the victory for UF to improve to 6-2 on the season. King struck out 8 in 6.1 innings of solid work.
Now, UF hopes it can carry over this astounding regular-season run to Hoover and, just maybe, well beyond.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
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